RE: Can you exist if the Internet doesn't know it?
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A lot of people need the feeling that someone's watching, that this life is being recorded, acknowledged, preserved. We used to believe that God was watching us. He was omniscient of course, so like an invisible infinity of cameras and microphones capturing every sound and angle, he could lay out the seconds of our lives and review them at any time. (And maybe share them with us, in the afterlife?) Not only that, he could understand our subjective experience of every moment, where we struggled and where we flew, with the sensitivity of the ultimate novelist. It probably made life feel a lot less lonely.
We don't rely so much on God, anymore. So we have TikTok, and each other. But playing God is hard work. We make a shoddy mess of it (with crappy sound and camera angles) and it gets in the way of living.
That is such an unusual way of looking at things. I never thought of it like that, but yeah, now that you mention it...the need for someone unknown out there to keep an eye on us. You know, weird as it is, I think I preferred God.
Don't know I'd like that. Imagine him going what the hell d'you do that for? didn't I teach you better? I know I did. Sent a bunch of medamn signs and everything. Don't do that. Jeez, you people. the rest of your eternity xD